Here’s a very easy to use storyboarding tool that’s lots of fun as well.
All you need to do is write a playscript, then input the dialogue text to the animation generator and it will create an action orientated cartoon movie video with talking head and body characters.
What a great way to visualise how your playscript might work when it’s performed by real actors.
The softare used is called xtranormal
The video for lesson 1 in the image editing series is now up on the blog together with some hints as to what the remaining 4 lessons will be about.
Seashore is the open source photograph and image editor based on Gimp technology and tailored for Apple mac OS native cocoa environment but the video lesson is fairly basic and applicable to any image editing software that uses layers.
All the pointers are that as the newest generations grow up and take their place, so video will become the most important ICT. This will happen on the internet just as soon as broadband becomes fast enough and ubiquitous, which is happening already to a certain extent. YouTube has become one of the most useful resources for looking up music, for example. Marketers believe that video creates a stronger relationship with viewers than readers of text of listeners to podcasts.
On the other hand there are some distinct disadvantages of video. It tends to be a broadcast medium rather than an interactive community channel for dialogue. Also it can be a slow way of absorbing information. The fast forward button doesn’t work nearly as well as an eyeball scanning over text looking for particular items of interest. As a view, you get lulled into a slow frame of mind, patiently waiting for the video presenter to get to the point!
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